(above, photo of amazing fan-made, folk art tribute from days spent in Sydney)

Those basking in the glow of a very cold, miserable Monday will be delighted to know that there are TWO sessions with Belle and Sebastian that will be airing today on opposite sides of the world to help you through.

Right now, you can tune into BBC Radio Scotland to watch/listen to Vic Galloway host a VERY special 2-hour show. The band will have live session tracks as well as an interview with Stuart Murdoch. See it all happen HERE.

Hot on the heels of their recently concluded US and European tour dates, The New Pornographers appear on Sirius XMU (channel 35 on your Sirius XM dial) tonight at 9pm EST, performing songs from their Album Of The Year contender, Brill Bruisers.

Can’t listen tonight? Don’t worry, XMU has you covered with multiple re-broadcasts. Full schedule as follows:

Prior to entertaining the masses at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater tonight, The New Pornographers will be entertaining, um, the masses, via the magic of live radio. Tune in to 88.9 Radio Milwaukee at noon CST for a performance by the band, or stream the set at radiomilwaukee.org if you’re more about ones and zeros than transmitters. Up to you really.

Copenhagen is better-represented than usual on the nation’s airwaves today, with Lower and Iceage making near-simultaneous appearances at two of the finer college radio stations to which you could ever hope to listen (in my humble opinion).

First off, we have Lower performing live on Radio K, which at this point has to be considered only a notch or two below Prince when it comes to Minneapolis institutions. Listen online at RadioK.org, or on their trio of radio frequencies (770AM, 100.7FM and 104.5FM) if you live in the Twin Cities, starting at 4:30PM EDT/3:30pm CDT.

Shortly thereafter, at around 5:00PM EDT, Iceage will be waltzing into the studio at New York’s WNYU for an appearance on the always vital New Afternoon Show to talk about their just-released album, Plowing Into The Field Of Love, and spin some tunes. WNYU.org is the URL, 89.1FM is the frequency.

‘Plowing Into The Field Of Love‘ has been out officially for one day and causing many to feel “emotion” to various degrees. Unless you saw the band when they toured this past spring, you have not yet heard these new songs live. They are back on the road this Friday with show at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church, but not before playing LIVE in KEXP’s The Cutting Room Studios in NYC this afternoon at 12:00 EDT. Tune in to 90.3 or kexp.org.

Hey New Yorkers, I have good news, bad news, and more good news for you. The good news is that Perfume Genius is playing Brooklyn tonight at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The bad news is that the show is sold out, so if you don’t already have tickets you’re out of luck. The other piece of good news is that you can listen to a live Perfume Genius performance today at 2:00PM EDT by visiting the WNYC Soundcheck website. This final piece of good news also applies to people outside New York, in case you were wondering.

Perfume Genius continues his journey across America and beyond in the following locations:

Hello, radio aficionados. If you have a hankering for live in-studio goodness from The New Pornographers, you can count yourself doubly lucky today because

1. You can head over to World Cafe’s website right now and check out Carl and the gang’s session with David Dye. (Or, if you prefer your radio sessions to have a radio frequency involved, you can click around on that very same site to find out when your local NPR affiliate airs the show. World Cafe is really popular, so your local NPR station probably airs it!)

2. If only the exquisite frisson of LIVE ON-AIR PERFORMANCE does it for you, flip your dial over to Seattle’s KEXP today at 4:00PM EDT/1:00PM PDT to hear The New Pornographers live on the Cheryl Waters show. Tune in at 90.3FM, or listen online at KEXP.org.

Both sessions will involve songs from the new New Pornographers album, Brill Bruisers, in support of which the band has just launched a tour (dates are below). You can also buy the album in all the popular formats of the day by going to our store.

This afternoon at 4:00pm EDT/1:00PM EDT, Thurston Moore and band will be following up last night’s Seattle show with Sebadoh by popping into the beloved KEXP studios for a live radio session of new material from the forthcoming full-length album The Best Day(out October 21; pre-order here). Those of you who live in Seattle surely know that you can listen at 90.3FM (and there’s no Seahawks game that day so you don’t have an excuse not to listen); the rest of you can go online and listen at KEXP.org.

Just back from a two week jaunt out East and back, The Young’s next Austin show is a week from tonight at The Mohawk, playing alongside Melbourne’s amazing Deaf Wish, the resurgent James Arthur’s Manhunt and space rock titans ST 37. Until then, here’s footage of the band playing much of their recent ‘Chrome Cactus’ masterpiece in session for KVRX‘s “Local Live”

Back on September 4th, The New Pornographers and National Public Radio took over NYC’s historic songwriting hub, the Brill Building to present a special concert celebrating the band’s latest release ‘Brill Bruisers.’ Earlier this morning Morning Edition aired an interview with Carl Newman and Neko Case in which they asked “What Makes a Pop Song Work?” Here what they had to say about the subject and what was running through their heads the night of the Brill show here.

Days after the release of ‘Chrome Cactus’, The Young kick off a brief West Coast swing tonight at LA’s Los Globos, playing prior to Milk ‘N’ Cookies and after Lamps and Gun Outfit. Earlier today, the band are visiting the lovely campus of Loyola Marymount University where they’ll be playing live on KXLU at approximately 5:30 pacific time (8:30 eastern). If you’re in the area, you can tune in at 88.9 FM, while the rest of us around the globe can hear the set at KXLU.com.

Today NPR Music has announced a special concert event with The New Pornographers.

On Thursday September 4th The New Pornographers will perform their new album Brill Bruisers (available now) at the Brill Building as part of NPR Music’s First Listen Live series: AC Newman – a pop songsmith in the grand tradition of Brill Building stalwarts Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, Laura Nyro, Carole King and Lou Reed – celebrates the release of his band’s new album at the historic home of songwriting tradition in New York City’s Times Square. NPR will begin broadcasting the event on Tuesday September 9th.

In advance of the September 9 release of the hotly anticipated ‘El Pintor’, Interpol will featured in a live webcast from Los Angeles’ Mack Sennet Studios next Tuesday, August 26 at 7pm pacific (10pm eastern) for National Public Radio’s “First Listen Live”. Interpol’s set — hosted by KCRW’s Jason Bentley — will be viewable worldwide at KCRW.com and NPR.org/music, and will be available all NPR affiliates as well.

Tonight, for one night only, our very own Jehnny Beth from Savages will be co-hosting the Xposure radio show on XFM alongside usual presenter John Kennedy.

XFM is available in the UK in London, Manchester and Scotland, but if you’re not in the vicinity of any of those fine cities, you can jump on the world wide web and stream it live. JB and JK take to the airwaves between 10pm and 1am this evening. Stream it live HERE.

Heads up — the Jicks will be performing this afternoon at 2pm (eastern) on WNYC’s “Soundcheck” , which you can hear all over the globe at WNYC.org. In addition, here’s Monday night’s performance of “Houston Hades”, from “The Late Show With David Letterman”. And if you’re thinking this entire campaign was an awful lot of work just so we could get Letterman to say “jagbag” on TV, well, you’re not wrong.